The new development release Wine 4.8 was released a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 19.04 and fix unmet dependencies issue. Wine 4.8 release highlights: Support building most programs in PE format. Unicode data updated to ...

This quick tutorial shows how to install ‘Yaru-Colors’, default Yaru theme in different colors in Ubuntu 19.04. Since Ubuntu’s Yaru theme is available only in light and dark, an open-source fork called Yaru-colors makes the default Gnome desktop theme available ...

Eric, a full featured python editor and IDE, now can be easily installed in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, and higher via Snap package. “Eric is a full featured Python editor and IDE, written in Python. It is based on the ...

Vivaldi web browser released new stable version 2.5 today with many exciting new features and improvements. Vivaldi 2.5 release highlights: Razer Chroma integration, enables lighting effects on Chroma-enabled devices. Option to resize the thumbnails on Speed Dials. Select the previous, ...

qBittorrent torrent client 4.1.6 was released a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 18.10, and Ubuntu 19.04. qBittorrent 4.1.6 is a bug-fix release with following changes: Force recheck multiple torrents one by ...

The latest stable Linux Kernel 5.1 was released. Linus Torvalds announced last night: So it’s a bit later in the day than I usually do this, just because I was waffling about the release. Partly because I got some small ...

Qmmp, Qt-based multimedia player, 1.3.2 was released last night with new features and various bug-fixes. Qmmp 1.3.2 (and 0.12.2 for qt4) features: added feature to play track on double click in the history plugin; enabled mpg123 decoder for Windows; using ...

Slimbook battery is a battery optimization tool that works on Gnome, KDE, Unity, Cinnamon, and MATE desktop. The software offers a system tray application indicator with three energy modes: Energy Saving, Balanced, and Maximum Performance. Also an ‘Off‘ menu option ...

Brackets 1.14 was released with PHP, Language Server Protocol support. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04. Brackets 1.14 release highlights: Language Server Protocol support. PHP Tooling support. Tooling includes: Code Hints, Parameter Hints, Linting, Jump To Definition, Find ...

KeePass password manager 2.42 was released a few hours ago with many enhancements, improvements and bug-fixes. KeePass 2.42 release highlights: Added ‘Group’, ‘Entry’ and ‘Find’ to main menu, and removed ‘Edit’. System-wide hot key (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+A) to auto-type only the password ...

FreeCAD, free and open-source 3D parametric modeler, released version 0.18 recently with Python 3 and Qt 5 support. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, and Ubuntu 19.04. FreeCAD 0.18 release highlights: Extended TechDraw tools New sketcher ...

One of the annoying issues in the fresh install of Ubuntu desktop is that the default Gnome Login Screen does not support tap-to-click out of the box, which is inconvenient for laptop user without a mouse at hand. So I’m ...

Wine 4.7, a new development release of the open-source compatibility layer to run Windows applications on Linux, was released with new features and various bug-fixes. Wine 4.7 release highlights: Support for builtin libraries in PE format even on Unix. Updated ...

For those sticking to the OpenJDK Java 8, you may found it’s missing from the default repositories of Ubuntu 19.04. To install OpenJDK 8 in Ubuntu 19.04, you can either download and install the package from Ubuntu 18.10 repository, or ...

Battle for Wesnoth 1.14.7 was released a few days ago with many improvements and fixes, and later 1.14.8 was released with a quick fix for Mac OS. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, and higher. Battle ...